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Imagining a New Life and a New Story | Week 1, Episode A: The Gift of Solitude and Silence - the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Story
We are now, one year into our journey with Covid-19. Silence and solitude have been challenging for us this past year. In the story of Jesus, these are seen as gifts. ...
2021 - A New Year: Will we merely survive or can we actually thrive? Week 5: Holding on to the Bad Wolf
As we begin the year 2021, we are asking the question: “How should we live? In fear and scarcity or in love and abundance?” We have a choice. We’ve told the story of t...
2021 - A New Year: Will we merely survive or can we actually thrive? Week 4: Feeding the Good Wolf
As we begin the year 2021, we are asking the question: “How should we live? In fear and scarcity or in love and abundance?” We have a choice. By doing nothing, we ofte...
2021 - A New Year: Will we merely survive or can we actually thrive? Week 3: We have a choice. Which “wolf” will we feed?
As we begin the year 2021, we are faced with all the usual challenges and this year, we add one more: Covid-19. What is our plan? Should we live in scarcity and fear o...
2021 - A New Year: Will we merely survive or can we actually thrive? Week 2: We have a choice. The story of the two wolves.
As we begin the year 2021, we are faced with all the usual challenges and this year, we add one more: Covid-19. What is our plan? Will we live in scarcity and fear or ...
2021 - A New Year: Will we merely survive or can we actually thrive?
No one likes the uncertainty of living in a Covid-19 world. We wish to return to a time when we had more control over life. Return is not always an option. Sometimes w...
Travel Can Change Us
Travel can change us. If we pay attention, we gain new perspectives on life that are energizing. Our hearts and minds are opened to new possibilities. Recently, we’ve ...
One Last Story for Christmas
This year during December we’ve told stories about people who have had challenges, disappointments, and suffering. Yet in the midst of all this, they have found hope, ...
Advent Special - Week 4, Episode C: Where is God’s love this Christmas? - Our own lives
How do we celebrate Christmas in a Covid world? We’ve spent 4 weeks preparing for our celebration and now Christmas is here. So how will we do? From the stories of tho...
Advent Special - Week 4, Episode B: Where is God’s love this Christmas? - The Christ Child
How do we find God’s love this Christmas in a Covid world? On Monday, we introduced the theme of love as we heard the story of the Spafford family. Today we continue o...
Advent Special - Week 4, Episode A: Where is God’s love this Christmas? - The Spafford Family
How do we experience God’s love at Christmas in a Covid world? Join us this week, as we consider the story behind a well known hymn, “It is Well with My Soul.” This hy...
Advent Special - Week 3, Episode C: Where is our peace this Christmas? - Our own lives
How do we find peace this Christmas in a Covid world? Today, we conclude our conversations about finding peace in times of uncertainty and unrest. On Monday, we talked...
Advent Special - Week 3, Episode B: Where is our peace this Christmas? - Joseph
How do we find peace this Christmas in a Covid world? On Monday, we introduced the theme of peace as we heard the story of the Christmas truce in World War I. Today we...
Advent Special - Week 3, Episode A: Where is our peace this Christmas? - The Christmas Truce
How do we find peace this Christmas in a Covid world? Join us this week, as we look at a Christmas miracle, soldiers on Christmas Eve stopped fighting and together cel...
Advent Special - Week 2, Episode C: Where is our joy this Christmas? - Our own lives
How do we find joy this Christmas in a Covid world? Today, we continue the theme we heard on Monday, God’s last tender word to us, “And all will be well.” As we watch ...
Advent Special - Week 2, Episode B: Where is our joy this Christmas? - The Shepherds
How do we find joy this Christmas in a Covid world? Today, we continue the theme we heard on Monday, God’s last tender word to us, “And all will be well.” In the story...
Advent Special - Week 2, Episode A: Where is our joy this Christmas? - Julian of Norwich
How do we find joy this Christmas in a Covid world? Join us this week, as we consider the advice of a wonderful woman from the middle ages. She counseled many who stru...
Advent Special - Week 1, Episode C: Where is our hope this Christmas? - Our own lives
How do we celebrate Christmas in a Covid world? How do we live with both the hopelessness of Covid-19 and the hope of Christmas? Today we’ll hear how Julie and Charles...
Advent Special - Week 1, Episode B: Where is our hope this Christmas? - Mary
How do we celebrate Christmas in a Covid world? How do we live with both the hopelessness of Covid-19 and the hope of Christmas? Today we’ll hear from Mary in the stor...
Advent Special - Week 1, Episode A: Where is our hope this Christmas? - Etty Hillesum
How do we celebrate Christmas in a Covid world? How do we live with both the hopelessness of Covid-19 and the hope of Christmas? Listen to the wisdom of a young woman ...
Gratitude In the Midst of a Pandemic
Having your heart opened for gratitude enables good and wonderful things to increasingly flow into your life, even in the midst of challenges and hard times.
For Such a Time As This
You were born for such a time as this! Your life -- wherever God has placed you -- does make a difference.
Let Your Roots Grow Down Into Love
Today, know that Christ’s presence fills you with hope, joy, peace, and love. Carry that thought with you. Sink your roots deep into what this can mean in your life. A...
Letting Go: Accumulated Stuff
What do you actually need for the journey, and how would a home and living spaces that are freed up of extra possessions free up space in your mind and heart for more ...
Letting Go: Discarding Useless Weight
If you’ve been engaging in some home projects and decluttering during the pandemic, let those activities remind you of the need to also spot and discard inner life emo...
Letting Go: Control of the Present
Let go of your need to control the present moment, taking any next steps as God shows them to you. Then see how much more joy and freedom you feel when you let go, kno...
Letting Go: The Overbooked and Marginless Schedule
For the sake of your physical, emotional, and spiritual health -- and no matter what time of life you’re in -- it’s good to spend some time looking at what “letting go...
If You’re Needing Some Peace
If you need some encouragement today, if you maybe need a mantra to get through the storms and chaos, try using the words peace, be still... peace, be still... peace, ...
The World Needs Love
If you’re losing heart and feel rather helpless to make a difference in the world, hold on to Love. It’s already inside of you. Cultivate it in your daily life. And be...
The Wheat, the Chaff, and the Pruning of Life
The letting go of long time habits or distractions, and the voluntary pruning of things in our life that keep us from being our true and connected self would undoubted...